Kevin Lenzo

Kevin Lenzo has a diverse work experience spanning various companies and roles. Kevin is currently employed at Duolingo as a Senior Staff AI Research Scientist, a position they have held since January 2021. Prior to this, they worked at Apple for over a decade, starting in January 2007 as a Senior Machine Learning Engineer. During their tenure at Apple, they held multiple positions, including Senior TTS Engineer and Natural Language Architect. Before their time at Apple, Kevin Lenzo was the CEO and Founder of Cepstral LLC, a company focused on building synthetic voices and tools. Kevin also co-founded The Perl Foundation in 2000, where they held the position of Founder and Director Emeritus. Earlier in their career, they worked as a System Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University and as a Member of Technical Staff at Lucent Technologies Bell Labs. Additionally, they have held roles as a Researcher at Advanced Telecommunications Research (ATR) and a Student Programmer III at The Ohio State University, Cognitive Science.

Kevin Lenzo completed their education chronologically as follows:

From 1990 to 1996, they attended The Ohio State University and obtained a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Computer Science.

Next, they enrolled at Carnegie Mellon University in 1997 and pursued a Master of Science (MSc) degree in Robotics, which they completed in 1999.

Following that, they continued their studies at Carnegie Mellon University, specializing in Robotics, and obtained a Ph.D. degree in the same field. Kevin completed their Ph.D. program in 2017.

Before their university studies, Kevin Lenzo attended CAHS (exact details unavailable) and East Muskingum Middle School. However, no specific degrees or field of study information is provided for these two institutions.